GHOST STORIES

1. Eat a small handful of raw seeds and/or nuts every day. If you’re going to buy anything from the supermarket to snack on, let it be raw seeds and nuts… do not go for the chips and cookies! 2. Eat fresh fruit two times a day. Vary the color of the fruits: think red, green and orange for example, and alternate between grapes/berries, apples/pears and oranges/mandarins. 3. Many of you eat out most of the time, so it’s important that you order right. As a rule of thumb, always fill half your plate with vegetables, and a quarter each of protein and good carbs. Make sure you choose vegetables in a variety of different colors (green, red, orange, yellow…). 4. Choose good sources of protein, and try to include oily fish such as salmon and tuna two times a week. Avoid red meat as much as possible; keep it to once a week (or less!), and choose very lean cuts. 5. Chew your food well, until it becomes soft and almost liquid. This will help enormously with your digestion, and yo

I can reshape my brain through meditation According to MRI scans, the hippocampus—the part of the brain in charge of learning and memory—thickens after only a couple of months of mindful meditation. Brain-cell density also decreases in the amygdala (responsible for fear, anxiety, and stress). Those physical brain changes can alter your mood.  Try one of these mini meditations to zap stress and anxiety . Please don't look down at your phone Would you hang four bowling balls from my neck? Before you say that’s a stupid question, consider this: Sixty pounds (or about the combined weight of those balls) is the same amount of force exerted when you tilt your head forward at about a 60-degree angle to text or e-mail from your smartphone. And you do that for up to four hours (hours!) a day. For the love and integrity of my cervical spine, raise that phone up to your sight line. Oh, and  avoid these texting habits that are super annoying . Please. Quit. Smoking. Five shor

1. Rome was founded in 753 BC by Romulus. Roman legend says that Romulus had a twin brother called Remus. As babies they were abandoned in the area which later became Rome. A she-wolf found and raised them, but when they grew up Romulus fought and killed Remus and became the first ruler of Rome! 2. The population of the city of Rome is around 2.7 million. The entire metropolitan area of Rome has an estimated 3.7 million people. 3. By the early fourth century, the Romans had built a road network of 53,000 miles throughout the empire. Each Roman mile was about 1,000 paces (about 4,800 feet) and was marked by a milestone. Hence the proverb "All roads lead to Rome." 4. The word “palace” comes from the Palatine Hill, where Augustus established the emperors’ tradition of building their palaces. 5. Every night at the Trevi Fountain about 3,000 Euros are swept up from the bottom of the basin. The money is donated to Caritas, a catholic charity, who uses the money to provide

Vatican City (800) San Marino  (33,000) Monaco  (37,000) Liechtenstein  (37,000) Andorra  (78,000) Iceland  (331,000) Malta  (425,000) Luxembourg  (570,000) Montenegro  (620,000) Cyprus  (876,000)

Russia (143.45 million)* Germany  (81.4 million)* France  (66.4 million) United Kingdom  (65.08 million) Italy  (60.93 million)* Spain  (46.42 million)* Ukraine  (42.85 million)* Poland  (38.49 million)* Romania  (19.82 million)* Kazakhstan  (17.54 million)

Total Population by Country 2018 Not surprisingly, the largest countries in the word in terms of population are  China  and  India , with both now having populations of well over a billion. The  United States  comes in third with just under 325 million residents. The BRIC countries ( Brazil ,  Russia , India and China), generally regarded as the four major emerging economies expected to dominate in the 21st century, are all in the top ten most populous countries, indicating how important the sheer size of their populations are to their economic expansion. However, a number of countries considered by the International Monetary Fund to be developing countries (that is, having not achieved a high degree of industrialization relative to their populations, and where the population typically has a medium to low standard of living) also have sizeable populations, including  Nigeria  (over 190 million),  Bangladesh  (almost 165 million) and  Mexico  (around 129 million), demonstrating